What I hate about the profession

Maybe I already know what I hate about journalism. I can say that 'cause of the kinds of homework I had at this point of the career. There is a lot of things I don't like.

First, there is this thing that you don't have a fixed schedule. Once, a teacher told to the class that she was is her car one night and this big earthquake begins and she had to left all her plans and travel to somewhere to do what journalists are supposed to do. I remember that 'cause I wouldn't like to have to travel one minute to the next. I mean, it could be a sunday or any other day when I'm supposed not to work. It's like with the nurses or doctors or jobs like that.

I wouldn't mind if I have to save a life or that kind of things, but we are talking about some guy who dies and you have to forget everything you are doing and go to his house and tell to the country.

I know it's not like that, but it's kind of.

Another thing I don't like is the fact that it's hard to work on subjects that you think are important. There is so many social problems and stories that should be told and you won't unless you boss wants to or if you're your own boss. Again, I know it's not so terrible and bad as I say it, but it's how I imagine it and I know I'm not so wrong either. 

Postgraduate studies

It's hard to think about postgraduate studies. Right now, I just can think about how much I want to finish this career and begin to work. Like I've said in previous blogs, I'm not sure if I want to be a journalist all my life, so I don't know if I would take some kind of course about it. Five years ago, I would say that I would wanted to learn different languages, 'cause it's great being a journalist and knowing a lot of languages.

Since we are talking about languages, I wouldn't like to take those courses in Chile. If I'm gonna learn French, I want to learn it in France. Same with Italian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese or German. Even not being a journalist it would be nice to learn a lot of languages, I suppose.

I guess I could study some of those here at the University, but this is my last year, so... Maybe one day I'll take a part-time course compatible with my work schedule.

I think today is important to take some postgraduate courses. Twenty years ago there were not so much people who had finished a college career. Now the things are different and there is a lot of competition. Unfortunately, people have to compete to get a job.

My future job

I don't know what kind of job I would like to have. I choose journalism because I wanted to write things, talk with people and go to places that you shouldn't be. I pretty sure that I had a wrong idea about the journalism because of the movies and stuff like that. Anyway, I've discovered that actually I do have to talk to a lot of people. Every subject here in the university makes me look for someone who could tell me what I need. About the forbidden places, It's more like know interesting places that you don't visit everyday. I wasn't so wrong after all.

I like to travel and know new places. I would be great if my future job lets me go to different countries or even to different cities here in Chile. It would also be great that the salary allows me to have nice holidays and have a beautiful house, a nice kitchen, maybe a car... All those things are important, but I think that the most important thing - or one I would always have in mind - is to have time to spend in my home, with my family and my dogs. I don't want a job that doesn't have a fixed schedule, or a job so hard that makes me just want to get home to sleep.

I don't know if journalism is this kind of job. It's interesting but I'm not so sure if I want to work as a journalist all my life. Maybe I'll study another career when i have the chance. In the last three years, I've found out that I would love to study veterinarian medicine. I'll try to learn more about that career and not from the movies, I don't trust them anymore.

My music

Music has always been important in my life. I think we all have some kind of soundtrack of our lives, or at least a couple of songs that there will be always in our hearts and minds. In my case, I've always liked old songs, like really old. Theres is no lyrics like the old lyrics, no matter if they aren't so poetic, but they are catchy... songs like "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas or "Don't Worry Baby" by The Beach Boys, or even older, like "You make me feel brand new" by The Stylistics... This kind of music makes me feel really good, so you could say that the genre that I love is old music.

Like I said, I love The Beach Boys, especially their not-so-hawaiian songs. But I wouldn't say that they are my favorite band. I don't have a favorite band. I have favorite songs that reminds me things or moments or persons, that's why every song makes me feel in a different way.

"Save Me" by Remy Zero (not a great song) reminds me when I was 16 and I spent almost a year watching Smallville, Creedence makes me remember my father and Sandro makes me remember my mother, "Still loving you" by Scorpions reminds me my sister 'cause she loves almost all their songs, "Turn me on" by The Shines is a song from that album that I love and I didn't find anywhere but my girlfriend did and it was my 2017 birthday present from her. "My sharona" by The Knack makes me remember my friend who left Santiago, "The force theme" makes me think when I saw Star Wars with my mom in summer...

There is a lot of important songs in our lives. We could re-write our days just listen to this songs or bring people to our lives, people we miss, moments that we would like to live again, moments that we wouldn't. That's why I love this songs.

My favorite movie

It's hard to say which movie is my favorite. There is a lot of movies I like to watch again and again and again. Back to the Future is one of those and maybe I should choose that one 'cause I've memorized every part.

Back to the Future is a science fiction movie that is about a teenager who accidentally travels to the past in a time machine that his friend - an old scientist - created. So, from 1985 travels to 1955 and knows his parents and changes the future and puts himself in danger not letting them to know each other and fall in love and all the things that they supposed to do to bring Marty to the existence. Besides, the time machine needs a lot of energy to travel again and there is no way to get what is needed to it. So, he could be there forever.

The movie takes place in a little city named Hill Valley, and everything happens in this city, just in different moments in history: 1985, 1955, 1885 and 2015. All this 'cause there are three movies and there are more than just one time travel.

The main actors are Michael J. Fox (Marty McFly), Christopher Lloyd (Dr. Emmett Brown), Lea Thompson (as Lorraine, Marty's mother), Crispin Glover (as George McFly) and Thomas F. Wilson (Biff Tannen). 

I like 'cause it remembers how the little facts in life can change everything in our futures and teaches that how we do thing now defines how we will be when we grow up. 

The best concert I’ve had

I haven’t gone to so many concerts. I’ve lived in Ovalle the most part of my life and – just as I said in the previous blog – it is a really small city. There are not so many concerts at there, in fact, I can’t remember if there has been one ever. There is just the bands or famous groups that goes to the “Plaza de Armas” and everybody who wants to go can do it and it’s for free. It’s not exactly a concert.

Anyway, the first real concert I went was the last year (maybe two years ago, sorry, I don’t remember), here in Santiago. It was a group that I loved, and my girlfriend loved them too, so she is mostly the reason that the idea was born. They were Los Fabulosos Cadillacs. I don’t remember the date, maybe it was like on this part of the year.

Los Fabulosos Cadillacs are a band that play something between rock and… salsa? It’s like a rock that you can dance if you want. I don’t know. Their lyrics are very funny and easy to learn (I can say that now. At those days, I couldn’t sing more than three songs).

The atmosphere was great. The people were jumping all over the place. It was at the Movistar Arena. Not so big, but there was enough space to dance and everything else. We were at the top, not far, really good places. Comfortable.

My girlfriend was very happy. She always wanted to see them. She knew all the songs. We dance. They played all the most popular songs and the people was screaming every time that they could recognize the beginning of the greatest hits.

She took a lot of photos of the band, the people and of ourselves. At the end of the concert, we were too tired… Maybe we would go again if they come back someday.

Things I love and hate about Santiago

I've been living almost five years here in Santiago. It's enough time to know the things that I love and the things that I don't like very much. I remember that the first thing that I hated about this city was - and it still is - that it takes too much time to get from a place to another. The city is too big and I'm not a really puntual person. I was born in Ovalle, a really small city where you can walk to everywhere because the public transport is slow and not very useful. Here, you must take the bus or the subway 'cause there are distances as long as the travel from my city to another.

Probably because of this the people is always running. They are always angry and they crush you in the bus while they're trying to get to their homes or jobs.

Another thing that I hate about Santiago are the extreme cold and the extreme heat. At summer, the city is too hot to do anything; in winter, it's like a polar cold. In fall, it may be too hot and too cold in the same day, so you don't know what to wear when you live your house in the morning. The spring is kind of the best season.

Except for this, everything else is fine. If you want to do something, you can do it because there is a place for it. If you want to buy something, here is THE place where you can find it in Chile, my friends are here, my girlfriend is here, my place is here.